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Maya Jasanoff

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http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/j...

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History, Nonfiction

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Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous British publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently completed a new book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (forthcoming February 2011), which provides the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution, and resettle...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 93 ratings · 27 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World 3.89 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:

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